MEG is a trio from Winston-Salem, NC, featuring Matt Tuttle (Codeseven) on drums, Eddie Garcia (1970s Film Stock) on guitar, and Grant Livesay (Grant Wescoat) on keys. The group was assembled by (self-appointed) executive producer Jon Foster to make what they’ve come to call “not-not jazz.”

jazz, post-rock, and alternative jazz

Hex Files is a post punk alternative new wave band formed in 2024 in the Triangle, North Carolina. Thrives on DIY sounds and techniques while integrating influences from the 70s and 80s to the modern day.

post-punk, new wave, and synth-rock

“They rip... Definitely more “egg” punk, going back to that whole descriptor — though getting specific: their sound falls under a self-described “Guided By Voices-core” brand of alternative garage.”
– YES! Weekly

rock, grunge, punk, and posers

“Caudle immerses his listeners in an irresistible landscape that combines folk, rock, and country into a sound that is distinctly his own.”
– American Highways

americana, folk, and roots

Find Familiar is music like when you close your eyes, and then you rub your eyes. And then, you can see those white dots floating all around. And it looks all crazy, but it’s kind of cool too. Find Familiar is like that, but music.

psychedelic rock, garage rock, and alternative

Darling Hiss is an introspective indie band that blends distorted guitars, shadowy lyrical content, and keys that swirl like dark matter, collecting into a primal sound where tension simmers and erupts in moments of raw, cathartic release.

rock n roll, and indie rock

“[A] rising act...”

— Rolling Stone

pop, soul, folk R&B, and indie pop

Music made in the South by people from the South IS country music, and capital-c Country is back, baby! Carolinian to a fault and b-bender at the ready, Woke County Speedway is here to cash in. Alt-country insolvent, WoCo is built on a foundation of cowardice, substance abuse and RIFFS™, cut from an oil rag of outsider punk experimentation.

alt-country, rock n roll, and punk

With a sound like an engine revving through a pitch-black southern night, Killer Antz blazes their own path with honest lyrics that lay to bare the weight of wisdom when looking back on anxious youth.

rock n roll, garage, and indie punk

NÄTIVA creates immersive journeys where modern sound meets ancestral memory.

electronic, dance, and house

“Yung Lungz is a glitchy psychedelic post-pop solo project fronted by Ian Killea (ex–Power Animal). Cheap drum machines lay down a hypnotic rhythm layered with with guitar loops and found sound, tension builds and falls away to breathtaking guitar swells.”
–Tim Nolan

post pop, boise pop, and psychedelic rock

“It’s a haunting soundtrack to post-modern urban living that teems with sputtery beats and plaintive, treated voices which melt into whines and whispers of static. It’s the drive home from a party in the wee hours as the towers of uptown Charlotte gleam and wink in pre-dawn half smiles, disembodied voices of friends and strangers jockeying for space in an addled brain.”
– Creative Loafing Charlotte

indie pop, ambient, alt pop, and vibe core

Wrist is a Winston Salem, NC based duo with synths, vox, loops, samples and drums. Their music is dreamy, thoughtful, sometimes dark, but often light. It dances somewhere between dream pop, experimentalism, drone and electronics.

electronic, dream pop, and dark wave

LUSHXLOTUS is a dynamic DJ from High Point, North Carolina, known for her electrifying presence and deep-rooted passion for electronic dance music. She brings high-energy sets to life through fast-paced rhythms and bold, distinctive sounds that captivate any dancefloor.

electronic, dance, and house